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nuclear fusions

nuclear fusions is the plural of nuclear fusion.

Meaning of nuclear fusion

Noun

nuclear fusion (usually uncountable, plural nuclear fusions)

  1. (usually, nuclear physics) The combining of the nuclei of atoms to form the nuclei of larger ones, with a resulting release of large quantities of energy; the process that makes the sun shine, and hydrogen bombs explode.
    • The emergence of this new large-scale lab-based astrophysics was an unanticipated side effect of a much broader, more fraught, and now quite in-the-news scientific journey: the quest for nuclear fusion.2023 January 3, Adam Frank, “The Universe Is More in Our Hands Than Ever Before”, in The Atlantic

Questions about nuclear fusions

What is nuclear fusions the plural of?
Nuclear fusions is the plural of nuclear fusion.

Words near nuclear fusions in the dictionary

  1. nuclear forensics
  2. nuclear fratricide
  3. nuclear fuel
  4. nuclear fuels
  5. nuclear fusion
  6. nuclear fusions
  7. nuclear gamma resonance fluorescence
  8. nuclear halo
  9. nuclear haloes
  10. nuclear halos
  11. nuclear hydrogen detection meter

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